Author: Serenita
Title: The Notebook
Rating: PG
E-Mail: MoonAngel2133@aol.com

Hope you enjoy it!

Serena awoke to the sun rising in the
horizon and the birds chirping. She yawned
and looked at her clock. It proudly showed
her that it was 7:00 O'clock. She smiled. She
might actually be to school on time. She sat
up and saw Luna at the end of her bed
asleep. She reached over and scratched
behind Luna's ears. She purred happily. She
looked at Serena and hopped down to the
floor to stretch. Serena walked over to her
desk and sat down. She picked up her pen
and opened to a page into her notebook. She
turned to the middle of it and began to write
in it.


Dear Journal,

It's funny that I can you Journal when you
really just are a creative notebook to write my
thoughts and dreams down. That's a journal
isn't it? He He. You know. I look back on all
these pages and I see I have written a lot on
Darien. I mean at first I totally hated his guts.
I despised him! And now... I think I love
him. I have already admitted to you that I
like him but... I love him. It's so obvious to
me now. Yes he can be cold and mean and
cruel. And yes he can be a pompous jerk, but
he does it for a reason. He's covering up
something, like a painful secret. I can feel it
when I am around him. He puts up a layer of
ice around his heart and sometimes himself.
He is so confusing and yet mysterious at the
same time! That drives me crazy and yet
makes me attracted to him. He may be cold
now, but I know deep down that he's lost and
alone and just needs someone to come into
his life. I will be the first to break that ice! I
will find that compassion, kindness,
gentleness, and love that I know is in him!
Well it's almost 7:30. Time to get ready for
school. JOY! (Not really) Will write more
later!


Serena ^_~

She closed the notebook and got dressed
for school. She picked it up with her
schoolbooks and walked downstairs.

"Well, aren't we early?" Her mother said
smiling. Serena smiled. She grabbed some
toast and started to walk out the door. "Why
are you leaving so soon?" Her mother said.

"I want to get an early start." Her mother
smiled.

"Have fun!"

"I will." She closed the door. The real reason
that she wanted to leave so early was because
she wanted to see Darien. She slowly walked
down the street to school, eating her toast.
She finished and saw people rushing into
shops. How could people stand to be up this
early? The yawned and continued to walk.

"What happened, Meatball head? Have a
revelation?" She froze in her tracks. Darien!
She clenched her fists tight in anger. She spun
around and glared at him.

"No, Darien, I just wanted to get to school
early." He dropped his mouth open wide and
slapped his hand to his forehead and stuck
his other hand foreword as if to grab
something to support himself.

"Oh God! Stop the presses! Serena Tuskino
actually wants to be at school ON TIME! " He
stopped and laughed. Serena felt tears come
to her eyes but she forced the back.

"Your so immature, Darien."

"Meatball head can say a big word."

"Shut up!"

"Make me!" She walked up and slapped him
across the face.

"Does that help?" He held his hand to his
cheek.
"Darien, I'm...I'm really...I didn't..."He
suddenly reached down and grabbed her
notebook. Fear rushed through
her body. He must have seen it because he
smiled and held it high above her head.

"Darien, please give that back! I'm sorry I hit
you! You just got me really mad! Please give
it back!" He smirked.

"Why? Something in there you don't want me
to see?"

"Yes! Now please give it back!" He backed up
till he was in the middle of the street. She
stood there looking at him hopelessly. She
turned and saw a car coming straight at
Darien. He started to open the notebook and
didn't see it coming.

"Darien, LOOK OUT!" She dropped her
books and ran for him. He looked up and saw
the car and froze. Serena pushed him out of
the way with all her strength. He landed on
the sidewalk hard. He looked up and saw the
car hit her. She flew foreword and hit her
head hard on the windshield. The glass broke
into a spider web formation on the
windshield. She slowly rolled of the front of
the car and landed on the pavement.

"SERENA!" Darien shouted. He ran to her as
fast as he could. The driver got out of the car
and started to call 911. She was barely
conscious when he reached her.

"Serena..." He didn't know what to say. She
looked at him.

"Are you okay, Darien? You didn't bruise or
bump something, did you?" He looked at her
in shock.

"How can you ask me that? Serena, you are so
much more hurt than I am!"

"As long as your okay." The ambulance
arrived and ran to Serena. They asked him to
back away. Soon she was on a stretcher and
the ambulance pulled away. He sat on the
sidewalk in a daze. Serena had saved his life
even after he was an idiot to her! He looked
down at the notebook that laid on the
sidewalk. He picked it up. He opened it and
read through it. The first part said how much
she hated him. As he read on he read that she
liked him, a lot. He closed the notebook after
reading the last entry. Tears were in his eyes.
He liked her. She liked him. And he probably
just killed her. That compassion that she was
talking about that she thought was in him, he
knew wasn't there. He knew he had to do
something though. He got up and ran to
Tokyo Central Hospital.

He walked into Serena's room, out of
breath. She was lying there with monitors
and tubes running from her body. He looked
at her. She was breathing fine and her heart
rate was normal. He walked over and sat in a
chair by her bed. He took her small hand in
his callused fingers.

"Serena, I know you can hear me. I wanted to
tell you something and it's taken so long for
me to say this." He took a deep breath.
"Serena, I love you. I've loved you since the
first day I saw you. I teased you because I
didn't know how to react to my feelings. I
had never loved anyone the way I do you. It
scared me. So I covered it all up. Today I was
a major jerk to you and you saved my life.
Only you would do something like that for
me. I know that for sure. I read your
notebook and how much you love me. I love
you too. But when you say that I have
compassion, kindness, and love deep down,
your wrong. I have nothing. Compared to
you I am nothing. I am note worthy to see
you each morning. And for some ungodly
reason I do. So, Serena, I am sorry. So very
sorry. I will never tease you again. And you
can find someone better to Love. You deserve
better." He leaned over and kissed her gently
on the cheek. He got up to leave.

"But I don't want better." He stopped and
turned around to look at her through his
tears. She was crying too. "I want you."

"You don't. You deserve better. I hurt you
today. I...I can't let that happen to you again.
I don't want to be like that."

"You only did that because you were scared.
You told me that, but I care for you and you
don't have to worry or be scared anymore."

Those words sent him running back to
her and hugged her as tight as he could.

"Darien, I forgive you. I'm sorry too."

"I'm so sorry, Serena. I am so so sorry." He
kissed her. They didn't have to say anything
else. Their hearts said it all.